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Your Price

What’s your price? It strikes me as an interesting question of late, with the advent of yet another alliance (even if only in name) going the way of the Dodo.

My price

About 18 months ago, I was somewhat reluctantly put into the position of being in charge again after a couple of seriously annoying corp thefts and a MIA CEO. I say reluctantly not because I disliked running a corporation previously, but because I knew it was a lot of work to get it up and running again.

Up until that point I had been reasonably happy making sales to specific clients, and helping out with the tech 1 build cycle. Our then-CEO managed at least 7 characters to deal with the rest. All of a sudden, that had to be me, and at the time I had one industrial character. Throw in the missing buckets of stock and blueprints, and you had a whole mess of things to sort out, and no idea how to go about doing it.

The desire to just sell everything and have done with it was fairly high, but I persevered for the sake of the legacy of the corporation and what it stood for. It was a bit like being handed the blueprints to creating a city and several billion Dollars/Pounds/Euros, but not being given the tools, or even being told what tools you’d need to do it. I’m pretty sure a lot of people would have just said “sod it” and cashed in. Even if it meant giving equal share to the other two people that put you in the position whereby this was an option.

So here’s a hypothetical for you, sports fans: If someone dropped 1-2 trillion ISK of assets into your lap, would you spend the next six months:

Liquidating your stock and retiring fat and happy, sharing the wealth with those that put you in that position – chaotic good

Liquidating your stock and retiring fat and happy to a secret alt and screwing everyone over – neutral evil

Stock-taking, rebuilding blueprint collections and calculating, eventually making a theoretical profit of 30b per month for around the equivalent hours’ worth of effort – lawful neutral (possibly…)

Doing something else (explain!) – ?

My price, then, depends a lot on effort. If someone could reliably give me what my stock is worth in a single lump sum of ISK, I would be tempted to do it. However, I’d find myself really bored after that, since its mostly what I do (and enjoy, I might add!) in-game these days.

And along those lines, I return to the first question as well: What is your price in-game? Bonus cookies for honesty!

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12 thoughts on “Your Price”

Being an Eve nub, with very little of a clue about small, nevermind potentially gargantuan, scale industrial operations – i’d probably go for the chaotic good option. It’s “easy” and “fair” and “everyone’s a winner”. Short term at least… Having all that ISK would probably be something of an anti-climax though, like a nub winning the lottery I might just figure, oh I’m loaded, I won – after blowing a load on shinies I can’t use or pilot 🙂

There might be that nagging “what could have been”, but in the face of what looks like scaling the Eiffel Tower in a three legged, egg and spoon race… from the outside… I could probably push those doubts aside.

As for my price, priceless* of course!

* – not counting a cutie with a sob story** 😛
** – I’m a poor nub, so no, I can’t loan you a billion ISK

I guess you would have to break it down into little pieces to make it manageable. It sounds like an awful lot to take in and wrap your head around and for me would be just “yikes! I think I left my gas on, brb”. Exit, stage left.

I was using the royal “you” for any unscrupulous passers-by, not Kala specifically 🙂

Well…2 trillion isk…MIA CEO…I’d be gone with it, seriously. Wouldn’t even give it a second thought. It’s a GAME. With that kind of bankroll, you can fund an activity (even if similar) that is organized according to how YOU want it organized…from the ground up.

I sort of did that anyway. Six months after we had a hostile takeover attempt from old shareholders, so I rebooted everything into a new (actually very old, deserted) corp, and ran things the way I wanted to. I took the people that voted me in as CEO in the old corp with me of course, and they seem to be very happy.

I like having full control, without feeling like I’m just a caretaker – though in effect I still am since I didn’t work for those assets in the first place. I really enjoy what I do though, which is what counts, I’m sure you’ll agree. 🙂

Being an Eve nub, with very little of a clue about small, nevermind potentially gargantuan, scale industrial operations – i'd probably go for the chaotic good option. It's “easy” and “fair” and “everyone's a winner”. Short term at least… Having all that ISK would probably be something of an anti-climax though, like a nub winning the lottery I might just figure, oh I'm loaded, I won – after blowing a load on shinies I can't use or pilot 🙂

There might be that nagging “what could have been”, but in the face of what looks like scaling the Eiffel Tower in a three legged, egg and spoon race… from the outside… I could probably push those doubts aside.

As for my price, priceless* of course!

* – not counting a cutie with a sob story** 😛** – I'm a poor nub, so no, I can't loan you a billion ISK

I guess you would have to break it down into little pieces to make it manageable. It sounds like an awful lot to take in and wrap your head around and for me would be just “yikes! I think I left my gas on, brb”. Exit, stage left.

I was using the royal “you” for any unscrupulous passers-by, not Kala specifically 🙂

Well…2 trillion isk…MIA CEO…I'd be gone with it, seriously. Wouldn't even give it a second thought. It's a GAME. With that kind of bankroll, you can fund an activity (even if similar) that is organized according to how YOU want it organized…from the ground up.

I sort of did that anyway. Six months after we had a hostile takeover attempt from old shareholders, so I rebooted everything into a new (actually very old, deserted) corp, and ran things the way I wanted to. I took the people that voted me in as CEO in the old corp with me of course, and they seem to be very happy.

I like having full control, without feeling like I'm just a caretaker – though in effect I still am since I didn't work for those assets in the first place. I really enjoy what I do though, which is what counts, I'm sure you'll agree. 🙂

Should I obtain such valuable items/unlimited supply of big iskies, I would use it to build something great, a big financial empire.And probably buy some PLEX cards for my closest EVE friends. :)(don’t really have many of those)My price? I cannot be bought, I’m lawful good!*picks the paladin class in Incarna*